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Time to derail this thread yet again, sorry! Two months ago when I was on a heavy 20-year nostalgia wave for my Berklee time I went and scoured the internet for whatever images I could find of The Wrap. They changed names to Boloco in late 2005 and I only started at Berklee in January of that year, so there was only a little overlap when I was going there getting the chicken ceasar wrap with religious fervor, and yet I'll forever remember the place as The Wrap.

These pics are all of the original Mass Ave location. Gotta love the late '90s Papyrus font

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Most of these came from Yelp, btw

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And here it is right after it opened in 1997 as "Under Wraps." They had to change their name within a year because Marriott trademarked that name

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OK back to your regularly scheduled blobscrapers!
 
kz1000ps said:
Time to derail this thread yet again, sorry! Two months ago when I was on a heavy 20-year nostalgia wave for my Berklee time I went and scoured the internet for whatever images I could find of The Wrap. They changed names to Boloco in late 2005 and I only started at Berklee in January of that year, so there was only a little overlap when I was going there getting the chicken ceasar wrap with religious fervor, and yet I'll forever remember the place as The Wrap.
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Best chicken caesar wrap ever, to the point where I'm pretty sure it's what got me to like chicken caesar wraps to begin with! The Jimmy Carter peanut butter banana shake also ruled. It looks like they're down to only 3 locations, with one of those in Hanover NH (by Dartmouth). Also appears they don't have the shakes anymore, and the chicken caesar is now an iffy item called mexican caesar. Best remaining items are the elote street corn wrap, or the summer burrito but ask for slightly less mango salsa and then to also instead add a little bit of pico de gallo. Unfortunately all the other items I used to get (thai wrap with peanut sauce, mediterranean wrap swapping out olives for whatever) were discontinued! The only thing to never order is the regular burrito. Go to a real mexican place for that.
 
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I appreciate the rarely seen not-a-bright-sunny-summer-day render, although it'd be more informative to see the tower in that light.

Also, I think that amount of rooftop solar for a building this size is almost purely performative - at that point they're doing it for the 3 LEED rating points available for having onsite renewables more than the electricity generated.
 
Something I appreciate about this and one thing Payette is consistent with is "hiding" the fact that these are complex buildings. The Ragon Institute is a lab building that does a pretty good job hiding it's a lab building. This is similarly trying to hide the massive AHUs, ERVs, and air intakes typical with a hospital building without you really noticing, at least better than most:

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I will say I'm not familiar with another project with a rainscreen system like this that is as heavily reliant upon the frit pattern as this is. I'm hoping it turns out as the renders show, and we don't have another Harvard ERC Research Building, where the facade system was overpromised in the renders and it's really just a cheap looking building with metal over it. The night renders are what give me worries that the day renders aren't entirely true.
 
Sorry if anyone on here works there, but Payette are certainly the masters at fugly-ass designs,
why is this trying to force curves into a rectilinear landscape? And why build on this sliver of site
when could replace that ugly parking garage right next door?
 
JS38 said:
Sorry if anyone on here works there, but Payette are certainly the masters at fugly-ass designs,
why is this trying to force curves into a rectilinear landscape? And why build on this sliver of site
when could replace that ugly parking garage right next door?
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The garage is a block from the rest of the Dana-Farber complex and not to state what should be really obvious but parking is kind of a necessary evil for hospitals.
 
And not arguing that the curves on the rectilinear form is going to be difficult to pull off, but they don't have much say at all in the siting.
 
kmp1284 said:
The garage is a block from the rest of the Dana-Farber complex and not to state what should be really obvious but parking is kind of a necessary evil for hospitals.
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Underground, is where that goes
 
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